The Feminist movement is often defined as a movement that advocates equal rights for women. ... Compare this with male-led independence movements such as the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. ... Like the now-celebrated civil rights movement, women suffrage records the recent and useful experiences of ordinary citizens forced to fight for their own rights against tremendous odds and social inequities. The suffrage movement was not a united movement. ... There she had learned the value of publicity to be obtained by marches, civil disobedience and hunger strikes. ...

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Rights given to us from our creator. ... From this thrust forth a new movement and new leaders of this movement to ensure these basic rights were also shared by black women as well. Angela Davis is a well know civil rights activist that contributed vastly to the cause. ... She was pressed into fighting for civil rights as early in life as elementary school. ... I personally believe without her the movement for equal rights for African American women would not have been as strong as it was with her. ...

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The Women's Rights Movement started around the late 1700's and is still being continued by the women of today. ... This in part inspired the key women involved in the early Women's Rights Movement (Encarta). ... Anthony started her involvement in the Women's Rights Movement when she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention. ... Lucretia Coffin Mott was another of the main women in the movement. ... Mott being a Quaker, preached non-violence so therefore was opposed morally to the Civil War. ...

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She wanted to win the battle of equal rights for women. ... This way they were showing a non-violent civil disobedience campaign. ... In 1923, she showed the first Equal Rights Amendment in Congress. She later worked on the civil rights bill and fair employment practices. ... Without Alice Paul and her aggressive actions in the Woman's Rights Movement, we could easily say that the movement would be a lot slower. ...

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The women of this movement were fighting for something they wanted and something they believed they felt they deserved. ... At the convention in Seneca Falls the men and women of the movement wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. In this Declaration of Sentiments the women demanded equal rights in education, equal rights in employment opportunities, and voting rights. Within the next 72 years women have gained equal rights in education, employment opportunities, and voting rights. ... Compare this with male-led independence movements such as the Revolutionary and Civi...

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There are parallels between the Southern Black's civil rights movement and the women's movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. ... This attitude of rising blatant and subtle attacks on women's civil rights is further exemplified in recent reactions to affirmative action plans. ... Johnson...

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The question lies in how, exactly, the pre-Prohibition temperance movement affected the women's suffrage movement. ... The political changes being proposed during the Prohibition movement acted as a catalyst for the women's suffrage movement. ... Not only did it rid the country of one of the biggest opposers of the women's suffrage movement, but the very nature of this movement caused enough of a political uproar, that the women's suffrage movement was able to fly in "under the radar." ... Anthony, and Matilda Carse were introduced to the political world through Prohi...

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Elizabeth Stanton was one of the country's most influential forces in the women's civil rights movement; without her contribution women today might never have come so close to escaping their role as second class citizens. ... Elizabeth actually overcame her resentment to her father and became a very important person in the women's suffrage movement. ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a great leader of the women's rights movement, she took public stands for women and thanks to her efforts, women now have the right to vote (Women's suffragists). ... That proves the point...

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When the Civil War began. ... The movement seemed to be making more and more progress as the months rolled by. By 1920, much progress in the Women's Right Movement had been made. ... President Kennedy began to support women's cause and with that came the adding of "sex" to race, color, religion, and national origin in the Civil Rights Bill in Title VII. ... Finally on March 22, 1974 the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment took place. ...

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She stood up for her rights when she refused to give up her seat at the end of a tiring day for a white man. ... Stanton was a leader in the women's rights movement and they became close friends and allies. Susan became completely loyal to the cause of women's rights and became an important leader of the movement. ... Before and during the Civil War, Susan and Elizabeth support abolition. However, after the war many people showed small interest in supporting the women's rights movement and they then left the abolitionists to concentrate on their focus of women's ...

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(Out of Many, 612) The three basic social issues addressed by the Progressives were womens suffrage, freedmens civil rights, and working conditions. ... With the abolition of slavery during the Reconstruction period, the fight for civil rights within the black community would create another amazing modification in America during the Progressive Era. ... Both varied greatly in terms of ways to gain and retain rights as American citizens. ... (Out of Many, 633) I agree with both leaders ideology, I feel the only way to obtain more rights is to improve yourself in order to be seen as an equal,...

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During the time of abolition women of New York were fighting for equal rights. ... By shedding her slave name Truth felt she was truly free to travel about and fight for her rights, including the rights to her name. ... That same year, Truth spoke at the first National Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. Many did not want Truth to speak as they felt, despite ever hearing her speak, that she would change to meeting into a civil rights movement. ... Truth is remembered as one of the foremost leaders of the abolition movement and an early advocate of woman's rights....

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The Civil war would not come to pass for another sixty years and there were few whites who opposed slavery. ... There she met important members of the abolitionist movement, including Frederick Douglass and George Benson, brother-in-law of the antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. ... speech at the Akron Women's Rights Convention in 1850 has gone down in history as one of the most significant expressions of the combined abolitionist and women's rights movement. ... I believe Sojourner Truth was an inspiration for other civil/human rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Oprah Win...

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For almost fifty years she led the first women's movement in America. ... In addition to suffrage, she promoted co-education, equal wages, property rights for wives, child custody rights for mothers, and reform of divorce laws. ... So why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton believe there were so many rights denied to the female sex? ... During a visit to Lucretia's home, as Elizabeth and some friends were discussing women's rights, they decided to sponsor a woman's rights convention (www.web24.epnet.com). ... The Feminist movement was stopped by the civil war as woman devoted their...

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The 1970's saw the beginning of a highly organized modern women's movement in India. Violence against women was one of the main focuses of the movement. ... The treatment of high cast women was one of the first forms of oppression attacked by advocates of women's rights. ... In the decades to come a number of political movements would emerge that would utilize various forms of civil disobedience as their main form of protest. ... The population base of this movement was the rural and the toiling. ...

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The 1970's saw the beginning of a highly organized modern women's movement in India. Violence against women was one of the main focuses of the movement. ... The treatment of high cast women was one of the first forms of oppression attacked by advocates of women's rights. ... In the decades to come a number of political movements would emerge that would utilize various forms of civil disobedience as their main form of protest. ... The population base of this movement was the rural and the toiling. ...

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They distributed a weekly journal called "The Revolution" telling the movement of women suffrage for approximately two years. ... Around that time Stanton was one of the leaders of the women's right movement. ... Anthony spent years promoting the society until the Civil War. ... Together they also published a weekly journal called The Revolution in Rochester around 1868, with a quote saying "Men their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.... Both come up with a strategy to split up the movement, and successfully made Wyoming the first territory ...

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Suffrage occurred in three different phases in conjunction with the three different generations following the Civil War; each possessed different views concerning marriage and family and professionalism. ... This movement was a result of expanding possibilities for women in a changing world. ... The first generation of formally educated women was viewed as pioneers "and their lapses or failures might jeopardize the whole "experiment" of higher education for women." 1 New women's clubs were formed on the basis of "intellectual self-improvement" after the Civil War. ... It was this be...

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They strived for Woman's voting rights. ... She said they simply must demand rights, not ask for them. ... They became the first American group to follow through on a nonviolent civil disobedience campaign. ... The statue was and still is the only national monument dedicated to the women's movement. ... In 1964, the civil rights act was passed, and Alice began her efforts to have sexual discrimination be listed in the Civil Rights Act. ...

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WWI helped women because it led to multiple advances in the women's rights movements and contributed to the 19th amendment. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was made to prohibited employment discrimination I. ... American history has influenced the University through the numerous women's rights movements led by various feminists, Anti-Catholic Rioting in 1844, and the World Wars that affected women's rights. ...

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After the civil war the fifteenth amendment was developed giving black adult males those rights. ... But a democracy can influence people to have too much power by granting them the all rights that we have today. ... His term as Prime Minister was ironically during the women's suffrage movement in the early 1920's. ... His term as Prime Minister was ironically during the women's suffrage movement in the early 1920's. ...

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King led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. ... " He uses this to explain how the Declaration does not specify that only white men would have equal rights but, all men, including African Americans, would be guaranteed their rights. ... He is calling the Negro to stand up, peacefully, for the rights they deserve. ... In conclusion, the government needs to uphold their duty to protect the rights of all American people. ... Women's rights weren't the only unjust actions of the government. ...

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During the Civil War women temporarily stopped fighting for suffrage. ... Many feared the demand for the vote would work against the demands, "they deemed more rational and make the whole movement ridiculous." ... The convention ended, with 68 women and 32 men signing the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (Frost and Cullen-DuPont, 81). ... The Worcester Telegraph in Massachusetts stated, "The list of grievances which the Amazons exhibit, concludes by expressing a determination to insist that women will have "immediate admission to all rights and privileges which belong to them as citize...

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Throughout history, Feminist movements emerged to fight for equal rights for women. These group efforts impacted to greater social, economic, and political rights since the 1800's. ... For instance, "One the first feminist books was A Vindication of the Rights of Women written in 1762, by the British writer Mary Wollstonecraft. ... One significant change, that was fought for was the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...

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